This Week in Spring - January 23rd, 2018

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week In Spring. This week I’m in Los Angeles (warm!) talking to customers and then it’s off to Chicago (not warm!). There’s so much good stuff to cover this week so let’s get to it!

This is a great look at Java’s service loader mechanism, and in particular it looks at how the service loader mechanism in Java 9 modules works. It also looks, incidentally, at how Spring itself does component scanning on the classpath.

@pivotal tweeted: ‘Maybe we should regularly play a “Where in the world is @starbuxman?” game in 2018?’ Indeed, 2018 is starting to move in gear and I’ll be bringing Spring wherever I can. Find me in these cities